| Opening remarks by CCAS Dean William Frawley | ||
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Scott Carter (U. South Alabama) |
Introduction to Quandles and Their Cohomology |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Coffee break | |
| 2:30 - 2:50 | Sam Nelson (Univ. California Riverside) |
Quandle difference invariants |
| 3:00 - 3:50 | Seiichi Kamada (Hiroshima University) |
Quandles with good involutions, linear biquandles and knot invariants |
| 3:50 - 4:30 | Coffee break | |
| 4:30 - 4:50 | Mohamed Elhamdadi (Univ. South Florida) |
Biquandles and knots invariants |
| 5:00 - 5:20 | Maciej Niebrzydowski (GWU) | On tangle embeddings; quandles and quandle polynomials |
| 5:30 - 6:00 | Quandles- problem session | |
1957 E Street, Room 212
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Breakfast | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University) |
A categorification of the Burau representation I |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:50 - 12:40 | Scott Morrison (U.C. Berkeley) |
Disoriented and confused: fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology |
| 12:50 - 1:10 |
Yongwu Rong (GWU) |
An isomorphism between Tutte homology for graphs and Khovanov homology for links |
| 1:10 - 2:30 | Lunch | |
| 2:30 - 3:20 | Jacob Rasmussen (Princeton University) |
Some differentials on Khovanov-Rozansky homology |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Coffee break | |
| 3:50 - 4:10 | Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU) | Combinatorial patterns in Khovanov type graph homology motivated by Hochschild homology |
| 4:20 - 4:40 | Milena D. Pabiniak (GWU) | On the first group of A 3 cohomology of graphs |
| 4:50 - 5:10 | Radmila Sazdanovic (GWU) | Torsion in the first group of the chromatic graph cohomology over algebras Z[x]/(x^m) |
| 5:10 - 5:30 | Coffee break | |
| 5:30 - 5:50 |
Jerome Petit (Univ. Montpellier, France) |
The Turaev-Viro and the related TQFT in the case of Group Category |
| 6:00 - 6:20 | Allissa Crans (Ohio State University) |
Quandles and colagebras |
| 7:30 | A small party (grill) at Jozef's house | |
1957 E Street, Room 212
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Breakfast | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Masahico Saito (Univ. South Florida) |
Some new developments in quandle cohomology theory - computations, applications and quandles in tensor categories |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:50 - 12:40 | Anna Beliakova (University of Zurich) | Unified Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant for integral and rational homology 3-spheres |
| 12:50 - 1:10 | John Armstrong (Yale University) |
The Extension of "Topological-Style" Link Invariants to Tangles |
| 1:10 - 2:00 | Pizza at 1957 E street (provided by the organizers) | |
| 1:50 - 2:20 |
Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University) |
A categorification of the Burau representation II |
| 2:30 - 2:50 | Christopher Truman (Univ. Maryland) |
Turaev torsion of 3-manifolds with boundar |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Elisha Peterson (Univ. Maryland) | Spin Networks and SL(2,C)-Character Varieties |
| 3:30 - 3:50 | Sean Lawton (Univ. Maryland) |
Symmetries in the SL(3,C)-Character Variety of a Rank 2 Free Group
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